The whole nation: You're put to survive on a desolate planet, you'll be running an alien b

The blood-red countdown, like a virus, instantly took over the retinas of players worldwide.

[Preview of Version 2.2 Update for "God's Game" - "Realm Fusion"]

[Announcement 1: After the update, the barrier between the game world and the real world will become unstable. Some in-game units, items, and abilities can be 'projected' into the real world. Projection requires a huge amount of survival points and follows the laws of real-world physics; please attempt it with caution.]

[Announcement 2: ...]

[Countdown: 71 hours, 59 minutes, and 58 seconds.]

In the living room, Su Wan's hand, holding the documents, froze in mid-air, her face pale.

"Boss, this..."

Li Haotian leaned back on the sofa, tossed his phone aside, picked up the remote, and turned on the holographic projector.

"Don't panic, it's just a technical adjustment."

The news channel is in an uproar.

Television stations around the world are urgently broadcasting this announcement from another dimension.

In the footage, experts and scholars look solemn, the host speaks rapidly, and the people being interviewed on the street are full of enthusiasm and excitement.

"My God! Is this real? I can bring my +7 longsword out?"

"Hahahaha! I'm going to conjure a fireball! I won't need a lighter anymore!"

"The space upstairs is too small! I'm bringing out our guild's war behemoth! Then who'll dare charge me for parking again!"

The entire world's internet was in an uproar at that moment.

Li Haotian opened the game forum, and the title of the most popular post was simple and straightforward.

Brothers! Are you ready to be the one and only true god of Earth Online?!

He casually slid down.

A familiar ID popped up.

【狂龙丶不服sala】： Alien! You coward! Wait for the update! I'll bring out my Berserker talent, go through the internet cable and twist your head off! Just you wait!

Li Haotian laughed.

This guy had his account deleted twice, but he still bought a new one.

It's true that "as long as I change my alt account quickly, sadness can't catch up with me."

He looked at Xiao Hei, the black cat, who was lying on the other side of the sofa, sharpening its claws using the spatial rift.

"Did you hear that? Someone's going to come down the internet cable and chop me up."

Xiao Hei raised its silver vertical pupils, glanced at him, and made a snorting sound in its throat, as if to say, "What are you barking about?"

Li Haotian swiped his phone screen again; the forum was full of players' fantasies about the future.

"I'm going to unleash my C-level talent, 'Precision Throw,' and win the javelin gold medal at the Olympics!"

"I only want to bring one bottle of basic healing potion; my grandma isn't well..."

"Please, please let me bring my in-game wife out of the game! I'll give anything for her!"

Su Wan frowned even more as she looked at these fervent comments.

"Boss, this will cause chaos in the world."

"It's good to order randomly, that's how you make business." Li Haotian closed the forum, stretched, and said, "Perfect timing, my clients need some new toys."

He closed his eyes and took stock of his current assets.

In the real world, the mythical Voidwalker, the Hellfire that can be used as a living plasma cannon (in the game), plus the newly acquired A-rank ability replica.

With this setup, he could blow up the entire network cable factory, let alone chop someone up along the network cable.

Just then, the encrypted communication went off.

It is a myth, Indra.

Li Haotian answered the call and put it on speakerphone.

"You should have received it too." Indra's voice was deep, with various commands and alarms in the background.

"Received it, it's quite lively," Li Haotian replied casually.

"We underestimated the speed at which the game is eroding reality." Di Shitian didn't beat around the bush. "Mr. Li, on behalf of 'Nine Provinces,' I formally invite you to join us once again. The world needs your power, and we need your bio-weapon data to build defense models."

"Oh?" Li Haotian picked up a potato chip and crunched it loudly. "Invited me? Haven't you been using me as a guinea pig all this time?"

There was an instant silence on the other end of the phone.

After a few seconds, Di Shitian spoke again, his voice tinged with helplessness.

"We admit our previous assessment was flawed. Now, we're extending an invitation for equal cooperation. Name your terms."

"My conditions are very simple," Li Haotian said. "First, don't use the word 'you all' anymore, it sounds too formal. Call me Big Brother."

"..."

"Secondly, collaboration is possible, but it will be on a pay-per-use basis. Friendly reminder: a version update is coming soon, and my appearance fee will be increasing."

Indra remained silent for an even longer time.

"Understood." He said only these three words before hanging up.

Li Haotian tossed his phone aside.

He knew the other party would agree.

Because now, the initiative is in his hands.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

During those 72 hours, the whole world was plunged into a bizarre state of revelry and tension.

The black market price of survival points skyrocketed tenfold overnight.

Officials from various countries have issued numerous strongly worded warnings prohibiting anyone from attempting to bring dangerous items or abilities into reality.

But everyone understands that this won't stop players who are blinded by power.

As the countdown on the retina turned red, it finally reached its last second.

【00:00:00】

[The 2.2 version of "God's Game," titled "Realm Fusion," is officially launched!]

An invisible ripple swept across the entire planet in an instant, in a way that was incomprehensible.

In the living room of the Genting Villa.

Su Wan was checking a financial statement. The dense numbers and complex flow of funds on it were enough to give any top accountant a headache for three days and three nights.

But just as the ripples swept across her body...

In the depths of her pupils, it seemed as if countless streams of blue data flashed by.

In my mind, those complex numbers and models were instantly disassembled, reassembled, and calculated.

In less than a second, she found three of the most hidden financial loopholes.

She froze, looking down at her hands, her face filled with disbelief.

"Boss..."

Li Haotian was leaning back on the sofa, petting his cat, without even looking up.

"You felt it?"

A system notification had just popped up in his mind.

[Ding! Detected that your subordinate unit 'Su Wan' has successfully awakened her talent due to long-term exposure to the 'Will of Domination' and the impact of 'Domain Fusion'.]

[Talent Name: Supercomputing Thinking (Level A)]

[Talent Effect: Significantly enhances information processing and logical operation capabilities, allowing for instant insight into the deep connections behind data.]

"I..." Su Wan felt like her brain was a supercomputer that had just been upgraded with the latest CPU, and her thinking speed was more than ten times faster.

"That's good. It'll make settling accounts faster in the future, saving you from having to work overtime every day." Li Haotian patted Xiao Hei's head.

To others, this is a miracle.

For him, this was simply a normal phenomenon of his power overflowing.

His honeycomb network of thinking is unknowingly transforming everything around him.

"Let's go." Li Haotian stood up and walked towards his gaming pod. "It's time to give those guys who think they've struck gold a vivid lesson in social practice."

Su Wan nodded emphatically, her eyes filled not only with awe but also with an unprecedented determination.

Li Haotian lay down in the gaming pod, and the familiar feeling of weightlessness came over him.

[Connecting to "God's Game"...]

Welcome back, great Alien Overmind.

However, he had just logged on and hadn't even had a chance to inspect his Lava Empire.

A huge, gold-plated announcement, covering the entire server and visible to all players, was suddenly displayed before everyone!

[Server-wide event begins: Hunting Time!]

[Announcement: Starting with this update, a game monster will be projected daily at a random location in the real world (the projection strength will be dynamically adjusted based on the average level of players in the area).]

The first player to successfully hunt down a 'Projected Monster' independently in the real world will receive a unique legendary reward—the 'Guild Headquarters Token (Real-World Version)'!